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Karnataka’s legendary batsmen like Mayank Agarwal and Karun Nair also failed to play big innings in this match, while captain Manish Pandey also did not get success.
Karnataka cricket team is waiting for the Ranji Trophy title for 7 years. The wait for Uttar Pradesh is even longer than that. UP won its only title in 2005-06. Karnataka is a multiple-time champion, while UP is desperate to lay hands on the trophy for the second time. Which of the two will be successful, it will be known in a few days, but in the quarter finals, Karnataka and UP are competing with each other and the way it has started, it seems that Uttar Pradesh is more for success. is hungry. On the first day of the quarter-finals being held in Alur, Saurabh Kumar and Shivam Mavi of Uttar Pradesh together destroyed the batting of Karnataka.
On Monday, June 6, at the Karnataka State Cricket Association ground, UP captain Karan Sharma won the toss and decided to bowl first. Initially, this decision seemed to backfire, but once left-arm spinner Saurabh Kumar and fast bowler Shivam Mavi came in colour, Karnataka’s condition became dire. By the end of the first day’s play, Karnataka scored only 213 runs for seven wickets.
Understanding spinner Saurabh’s spin proved to be a difficult task for the Karnataka batsmen. He took 4 wickets for 67 runs. It included excellent batsmen like opener Ravikumar Samarth and captain Manish Pandey, who were batting well. At the same time, young fast bowler Shivam Mavi also made a splash and took three wickets for 40 runs. He sent stalwarts like Mayank Agarwal and Karun Nair to the pavilion, dodging them with his speed and swing.
From Karnataka’s side, only opener Ravikumar Samarth (57) was able to bat sustainably. Ravikumar and Mayank Agarwal (10) added 57 runs for the first wicket. Agarwal, however, did not appear to be in rhythm at all during this partnership. Ravikumar completed his half-century in just 54 balls with a run off Saurabh. He, however, slowed down after that and had to bear the brunt of it. Saurabh got him caught by Prince Yadav. Ravikumar faced 81 balls and hit 10 fours. In no time, Mavi gave a third blow to Karnataka by bowling Nair (29).
After this, Captain Pandey (27) and K Siddhartha (37) then took the team’s score to 163 runs for three wickets. In the 56th over, Saurabh gave a double blow to Karnataka by sending Pandey and Srinivas Sharath (00) to the pavilion in successive deliveries. Shreyas hit a four and a six on Saurabh but Mavi got his third wicket by bowling Siddharth. Due to bad weather, only 72 overs could be played on the first day.
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